Workers take picket lines in Kamloops asking for cost-of-living protection

KAMLOOPS — Local B.C. General Employees Union members are taking to the picket lines at the BC Liquor Distribution Branch in Kamloops striking for higher wages in order to afford to live.

At 9881 Dallas Dr. on Monday (August 15), members of the union that represents 33,000 staff members province-wide chanted asking for change.

Vice President of the local 610 branch, Judy Fox-McGuire, hopes to see a difference in pay for the union’s members due to the strike.

“They want change,” Fox-McGuire told CFJC Today. “They see their’s coworkers leaving their jobs every day because they can’t afford to live and they’re getting higher paid jobs elsewhere. We want to keep the public service working and we want to keep them going so we need this money so people can afford to work and afford to feed their families.”